Iraq Bombs Sharia Court, Kill Islamic State’s Sharia Judge

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

An Iraqi government air strike on a Sharia court set up by Islamic State militants in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed 60 people on Wednesday, the office of the prime minister’s military spokesman said.

The Islamic State judge who ran the court was among those killed, the spokesman said.

I can’t imagine on what grounds anyone might object to the peaceful religion’s religious courts, which we are repeatedly told by our own media, should be welcomed in the United States.

The Sunni militants routinely hand down sentences such as beheadings.

But maybe they were peaceful beheadings. Did anyone think of that?

Hospital officials and witnesses said earlier that the air strike had killed 50 people in a makeshift prison set up by the Islamic State, which seized large chunks of Iraq in June.

As you can see from the last paragraph, ISIS is borrowing some of the same tactics as Hamas.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.